Improvement in ironing-boards



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JACKSON M. KENDALL, OF PROPHETSTOWN, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN lRONlNG-BOARDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 183,807, dated October 31, 1876; application led April 24,1876.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JAcKsoN M. KENDALL, of Prophetstown, of the county of Whitesides and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Ironing-Boards for Shirts or various other Garments 5 and do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure lis a top view, Fig. 2 a bottom view, Fig. 3 a longitudinal section, and Fig. 4 a transverse section, of an ironing-board and its clamping-bar of my improved kind.

The board A, formed as shown, with a haudle or neck, a, is grooved lengthwise on its lower side and near each of its opposite edges, the grooves being shown at b b. These grooves are to receive tongues co, which, when in the said grooves, project from the lower surface of the board, and, with the grooves, serve to hold to the board a cloth cover, B, arranged on the board and within its grooves, in manner as shown. Extending across the board is a clamp-bar, O, which, projecting at each end beyond the board, is there provided with two clamps or turn-buttons, d d, to turn underneath the board, and against and across the two tongues, in manner as shown. The clamp-bar is grooved lengthwise on its lower surface, as shown in section in Fig. 3. When a shirt or garment is placed on the ironingboard, or the latter is extended within such shirt or garment, the clamp-bar and its clamps are used to hold the latter in place and suitably stretched, ready for and while being ironed. The clamp-bar and its clamps also operate to keep the tongues in the grooves of the board. Furthermore, the board may have applied to it a clamp-screw and nut, for clamping it to a table.

I claim- 1. The ironing-board A, provided with the clamp-bar C and its clamps d 0l.

2. The combination of the ironing-board A, provided with the clamp-bar O and its clamps d d, all being applied and arranged as set forth.

JACKSON M. KENDALL.

Witnesses:

H. M. DAILY, JOHN N roHoLs. 

